I've never felt like my career has been on fire.

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.

I've always thought Mexico City was incredibly dynamic.

There's times when I'll see a show, or something cooking on TV, and think, "That can really be fun when it's working." But it's a grind. I did that at NBC, it was five days a week. I was doing Talk Soup and Later at the same time. It's a hard job, more difficult than people realize.

Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.

I like complicated characters.

There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.